Solar System
Which planet has the shortest day, completing a rotation in just under 10 hours?
What is Jupiter?
What is the name of the closest star system to Earth? Hint:Alpha _______
What is Alpha Centauri?
What is the name of the first human-made object to leave the solar system?
What is Voyager 1?
What is the name of the famous comet that orbits the Sun roughly every 76 years?
What is Halley’s Comet?
What is the name of the largest moon in our solar system?
What is Ganymede?
What is the name of the largest moon of Saturn? Hint: is the name of one of my classmates and starts with T.
What is Titan?
What is the name of the phenomenon where a star explodes and becomes extremely bright?
What is a supernova?
What is the name of the rover that landed on Mars in 2012?
What is Curiosity?
What is the term for a small rocky body that orbits the Sun, often found in the asteroid belt?
What is an asteroid?
What is the name of the first artificial satellite launched into space?
What is Sputnik 1?
Which planet is known for having supersonic winds?
What is Neptune?
What is the name of the galaxy closest to the Milky Way?
What is the Andromeda Galaxy?
What is the name of the space telescope launched by NASA in 1990?
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
What is the name of the region beyond Neptune where icy bodies orbit the Sun?
What is the Kuiper Belt?
What is the name of the planet known as the “Morning Star”?
What is Venus?
What is the name of the second smallest planet in our solar system?
What is Mars?
What is the term for a star that has collapsed into a dense object with immense gravity?
What is a black hole?
What was the name of the first crewed spacecraft to orbit the Moon?
What is Apollo 8?
What is the name of the largest volcano in our solar system, found on Mars?
What is Olympus Mons?
What is the name of the region in space where gravitational forces are so strong that not even light can escape?
What is a black hole?
Which planet spins backward relative to the others?
What is Venus?
What is the name of the process that powers stars by fusing hydrogen into helium?
What is nuclear fusion?
Who was the first person to travel into space?
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
What is the term for the boundary around a black hole beyond which nothing can escape?
What is the event horizon?
What is the approximate speed of light in a vacuum? Hint:299,___
What is 299,792 kilometers per second?